Natural Disasters

1. Check the definitions and do the exercises.
2. Disasters: Interactive video lesson

PAST SIMPLE OR PAST PROGRESSIVE

PRACTICE:

1. Choose the right tense to complete the sentences.

2. Write the sentences.

GAMES:

Past simple/progressive game 1

Past simple/progressive game 2

Irregular Verbs game 1

BIOGRAPHIES
HENRY VIII

Search the web and answer:

1. Who was he?

2. Where and when was he born?

3. Who were his parents?

4. How old was he when he became king?

5. How many times did he marry?

6. What happened to each of his wives?

7. How many children did he have?

8. When and how did he die?

Reference:

The fascinating life of Henry VIII. 
Henry VIII. Top 10 facts.
Henry VIII. Biography.

PAST PROGRESSIVE

2nd YEAR ESO

PAST PROGRESSIVE - INTRO LESSON

Watch the video to see some exemples of this tense and learn how it is formed.

1. EXTRA REFERENCE

2. What was she doing?

3. Write the correct form of the verb. 

4. The present. Video Lesson.

5. Let's play: Game.

11 September 2001

SEPTEMBER 11: TIMELINE VIDEOS

WTC   9/11             

Timeline: the following events took place in the USA on 11 September 2001, but they are not in the correct order. Can you rearrange them? Then choose the correct tenses to complete the sentences.

A-At about 10 a.m., the southern tower (collapse).

B-At 11:30 p.m. President Bush (enter) into his daily journal: “The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today… We think it’s Osama bin Laden.”

C-Later, the northern tower also (fall) in on itself.

D-Shortly after the World Trade Center catastrophe, at about 9:38 a.m, a Boeing 757 (crash) into the Pentagon.

E-The chaos (begin) at about 8:50 a.m.,

F-the president (address) the nation from the White House.

G-Evacuation  of the first tower (begin) at 9:00.

H-Then, at 9:04 a.m., another jet (crash) into the southern tower.

I-Later, at about 10:20 a.m., United Airlines Flight 93 (crash) in western Pennsylvania

J-While police and fire-fighters (try) to locate survivors in the rubble that had been the Twin Towers,

K-when a hijacked American Airlines passenger plane (smash) into the One World Trade Center.

PAST PROGRESSIVE: REFERENCE AND ONLINE PRACTICE

PAST PROGRESSIVE

Listen to some examples:

Past Progressive Picture Game: Can you guess what they were doing?

What were the people in the town doing yesterday at nine o'clock in the morning?

What happened then?

What were the people in the video doing when the blackout happened?

 PAST PROGRESSIVE: REFERENCE AND PRACTICE

Past Simple and Past Progressive

1. Past Continuous Video Exercise.
2. Past Simple and Past Continuous: Complete the sentences

FOUR TENSES REVISION:

4. Present Simple vs Present Continuous and Past Simple vs Past Continuous: online exercise
5. Present Simple vs Present Continuous and Past Simple vs Past Continuous: online exercise 2